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"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
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"And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is."
"Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven."
"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy."
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"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
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